There is some educating going on in Florida, but it looks like the main group being educated is the local school board. The whole thing started in January 2013 when the Orange County school board decided to allow a religious group to distribute free bibles in their public high schools. The Orange County school district […]

Texas has a long history of producing school textbooks influenced by hard-right conservatives, but we had hoped those days were over. Nope. Of more than 140 people on the textbook panels, only three are actually college-level educators. For example, the chair of the History Department at Southern Methodist University, who is also faculty at the […]

Think we don’t need any government? Oops! What I find hilarious is that while we all heard on the news how terrible things were in Atlanta — people stranded all night in their snowed-in cars, students forced to sleep on the gym floor at their schools or on school buses because they could not get […]

It is too bad that I don’t have a category for “sanity in an insane world”. This story definitely qualifies. Los Angeles County Sheriff oversees the largest jail system in the nation, and yet he travelled to Washington to lobby the government to give him less money, and instead spend the money on preschools, saying: […]

In one of the largest academic scandals in recent history at the school, as many as 60 students have been forced to withdraw from Harvard University after they were found cheating on a final exam. Why is this ironic? Because the class was “Introduction to Congress”.

Think this is overstating the issue? Well, listen to Suze Orman explain how banks are completely screwing students: If I didn’t know better, I’d swear that somebody doesn’t want anyone other than the rich to get a higher education. UPDATE: Daily Kos published this same infographic, along with links to further information and raw data.

Tucson’s school board bans the Mexican-American studies program based on “solid evidence”. The school board member interviewed in the video claims he did not know that the Daily Show “is a satirical news show and thus does not always represent the true remarks their guest make. I went on this show to talk about the […]

CNN commentator Jack Cafferty asks a very good question: When it comes to presidential politics, why does America seem to be allergic to brains? I’ve been wondering the same thing. Like, how did we end up with the current crop of Republican frontrunners? As The Onion satirically put it in a recent headline “White-Hot GOP […]